Top 457 Assert Quotes & Sayings

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the word 'God' and that it was therefore as meaningless to assert a belief as to assert a disbelief in God. Though this, in a general way, has remained my position ever since, I have always avoided unnecessarily to offend other people holding religious belief by displaying my lack of such belief, or even stating my lack of belief, if I was not challenged.

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and assert your authority.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.

I would suggest to you, what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

We need to come out and assert ourselves on both sides of the court.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering